June Birthdays

In the history of the Michigan Supreme Court, there have been eleven justices born in the month of June and eleven justices who have died. Click on the names below to read more about each of them:

Born in June —

• Chief Justice Stephen J. Markman
• Robert P. Young, Jr.
• Maura D. Corrigan
• Charles D. Long [Justice Long also died in June]
• James Witherell [the only father-son duo to serve the Michigan Supreme Court, Witherell’s son Benjamin died in June (see below)]
• Mary Beth Kelly
• John D. Voelker
• Frederick Bates
• Mary S. Coleman
• William Fletcher
• Emerson R. Boyles

Died in June —

• Rollin Person
• Henry Butzel
• George Durand
• Alpheus Felch
• Franz Kuhn
• Theodore Souris
• Benjamin Witherell [the only father-son duo to serve the Michigan Supreme Court, Witherell’s father James was born in June (see above)]
• Edwin Lawrence
• Charles D. Long [Justice Long was also born in June]
• Robert Montgomery
• Otis Smith